Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to a spiritual episode of Cheeky's and Chill.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you guys will appreciate this episode.
Speaker 1: It's something I'm very passionate about self. It's just going
Speaker 1: to be me and the mic today. Let's get started.
Speaker 1: This is Cheeky's and Chill. Okay, guys, today we're going
Speaker 1: to be discussing prayer versus meditation. These things probably mean
Speaker 1: different things to different people, so keep in mind these
Speaker 1: are my thoughts, This is my opinion and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to share with you guys. So let's start with
Speaker 1: the difference between the two. Because there are two different
Speaker 1: things people ask me, Okay, should I pray or meditate?
Speaker 1: I feel that you should do both because they're two
Speaker 1: different things. So, for instance, prayer, the way I see
Speaker 1: it is that you're plugging yourself into the spiritual realm.
Speaker 1: You're kind of putting yourself in God's hands. A lot
Speaker 1: of people don't pray on a daily basis, or they
Speaker 1: only pray when they need something, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: I feel like it shouldn't be that way. I think
Speaker 1: that we should pray every single day and plug ourselves in,
Speaker 1: like literally say okay, I'm gonna plug myself in to
Speaker 1: the spiritual world, into the light, and it's more about
Speaker 1: thinking than asking, you know. You know how they say
Speaker 1: it's better to give than to receive. That's kind of
Speaker 1: how I feel with prayer. Of course, you could pray
Speaker 1: for people and pray for their well being and pray
Speaker 1: for things and say God please help me, or God,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is that your desire is or
Speaker 1: you need at that moment. There's nothing wrong with that,
Speaker 1: But I always like to start by saying thank you.
Speaker 1: Having an attitude of gratitude. I feel like when you
Speaker 1: are grateful for what you do have versus just praying
Speaker 1: for what you want and what you desire, like you're
Speaker 1: missing such a beautiful gift, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you're overseeing, Like, Okay, I have a roof over
Speaker 1: my head, Thank you God. I have clothes on my back,
Speaker 1: I have food in my refrigerator, I have money in
Speaker 1: my account. Like I feel like the more you're grateful
Speaker 1: for what you have, the more you wrine. That's how
Speaker 1: I see prayer. Now. Meditation is just as important. The
Speaker 1: way I see it is really silencing your mind and
Speaker 1: taking a moment to just step away from all of
Speaker 1: the noise and all of the responsibilities and most importantly,
Speaker 1: all of yesterday's maybe negative thinking. This is what I
Speaker 1: like to say. I close my eyes and of course
Speaker 1: I always start with gratitude. I'm like, I'm thankful. I'm think, well,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful because it takes a long time to kind
Speaker 1: of get into the state of like nothingness and aligning
Speaker 1: yourself with the universe, with the light as well, but
Speaker 1: more than anything, silencing your mind and just thinking of
Speaker 1: blissful things or just not even thinking at all. It's
Speaker 1: just there's so much power in silence. And I use
Speaker 1: meditation music. I like guided meditations like as well. There
Speaker 1: are a lot also on YouTube and stuff, and someone
Speaker 1: can guide you where you can literally just sit there
Speaker 1: with like meditation music and just sit, sit, just be.
Speaker 1: I found this quote that I want to share it
Speaker 1: with you guys, because it's about prayer. Here's the quote,
Speaker 1: pray about it as much as you think about it.
Speaker 1: So that's prayer on the prayer side. We kind of
Speaker 1: talked about that already, but there's this one about meditation.
Speaker 1: Everything you need, your courage, strength, compassion, and love, everything
Speaker 1: you need is already within you. So I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what meditation is. It's kind of reminding you and
Speaker 1: bringing you back to yourself, because sometimes we get so
Speaker 1: caught up in the rat race of life and trying
Speaker 1: to accomplish and trying to get and want and all
Speaker 1: this stuff that our humanly like desires, want our flesh
Speaker 1: that we forget there's so much to be grateful for,
Speaker 1: and like it just brings you back to yourself, to
Speaker 1: your authentic self, is what I feel like meditation is.
Speaker 1: Here's another one. Silent isn't empty. It's full of answers.
Speaker 1: So sometimes when you just quiet your mind, it's crazy
Speaker 1: how you can hear and you can feel things when
Speaker 1: you're just like, just shut it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: No television, no Instagram, no emails, it's just you and
Speaker 1: your thoughts. And for me, prayer and meditation have become
Speaker 1: such an essential part of my well being, part of
Speaker 1: my self love, part of my everyday routine morning and night,
Speaker 1: because it helps me just feel better. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm more successful now. There are times when I don't
Speaker 1: have I wake up later something and I'm like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: like I can't meditate today, but I definitely will get
Speaker 1: on my knees and pray. And I choose to get
Speaker 1: on my knees, especially at night, because it's a way
Speaker 1: of like humbling yourself amongst a higher power. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: could think, oh, you know, Cheekys has it all and
Speaker 1: she has this and she has that, and like some
Speaker 1: people might even think that they're powerful and they're better
Speaker 1: than everyone else. And I feel that it's so important
Speaker 1: to every day like humble yourself and get on your
Speaker 1: knees and just say, hey, I see you, I see
Speaker 1: who I am, and I'm everything I am because of
Speaker 1: you higher power, God, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: It could be your Santos, it could be La, it
Speaker 1: could be whatever you believe in. It's important to just
Speaker 1: surrender yourself to that higher power, which is why I
Speaker 1: choose to get on my knees. Sometimes I don't get
Speaker 1: on my knee. Sometimes I'm standing up and I'm praying
Speaker 1: and I'm thanking God. And sometimes it's five minutes, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's thirty minutes, sometimes it's an hour, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: the length. And sometimes people are like, well, how do
Speaker 1: I pray? Just talk? Just say God help me. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to say, but can you just help
Speaker 1: me like, I don't I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: start this, Like it's thank you God. Sometimes it's just
Speaker 1: thank you God, thank you for this day. I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm yours. That's it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: this huge, elaborate, elegant way of speaking like God. I
Speaker 1: feel like in the higher power and faith, they hear
Speaker 1: you no matter how you say, even like sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: like shit, God, like I'm mad, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I cuss and I'm like, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you to throw f bombs all the time. But
Speaker 1: the universe loves you just the way that you are.
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got to try to be better, a
Speaker 1: better version of ourself every single day. But I want
Speaker 1: to put that out there because a lot of people
Speaker 1: are like they asked me, like, how do I even start?
Speaker 1: Same thing with meditation, there's guided meditation, there's things on YouTube,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of books that you could read,
Speaker 1: and again it's just literally sitting in silence, and there's
Speaker 1: guided meditations that will guide you as to what to
Speaker 1: think and what to say and what colors to see.
Speaker 1: And now I just got to the point where sometimes
Speaker 1: I do guided and I like align my chakras. There's
Speaker 1: like a chakra one, and sometimes I just do my
Speaker 1: own and I just sit there and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: today's gonna be a good day. And I just like
Speaker 1: recite everything in my mind. And again, some days are
Speaker 1: shorter than others. And I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: might be thinking, Okay, it's so easy for you to
Speaker 1: say to meditate, cheeky because I've told some of my friends,
Speaker 1: just meditate. Try it. They're like, but I can. I've
Speaker 1: tried it. And I sit there and I just think
Speaker 1: about what I have to do tomorrow and what I
Speaker 1: have to do later and like all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's like I get it. Believe me, I get it,
Speaker 1: you guys. I it took me a long time, I
Speaker 1: want to say, like for real, real, like six months
Speaker 1: to train my mind and bring it back. It's all
Speaker 1: about just being being intentional. I love that word intentional.
Speaker 1: But in being intentional and just when you're sitting your
Speaker 1: mind is gonna be okay. Because I always like, thank
Speaker 1: you God, thank you, think you, thank you. I'm grateful.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful. Like the more you recite it in your mind,
Speaker 1: like you start forgetting about all of the things that
Speaker 1: you have to do and that you didn't do yesterday
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. And then sometimes you're like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: but oh I gotta make beans today or something I
Speaker 1: don't know. Then you're like, whoa, waitit wait, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna think about that right now. I am grateful. I
Speaker 1: am grateful that I have beans that I'm gonna cook later,
Speaker 1: but right now is my time, and you have to
Speaker 1: kind of just even if you say it out loud,
Speaker 1: it's better if you say it in your mind. But
Speaker 1: it's like little by little, it's gonna take practice. Practice
Speaker 1: makes perfect. So the best thing I can tell you
Speaker 1: is don't give up on it, even if it's two
Speaker 1: minutes and you just gradually bring it up. You know,
Speaker 1: from two minutes to five minutes to eventually you're gonna
Speaker 1: be meditating for thirty minutes and you're not even gonna
Speaker 1: feel it. But it does take time. So be patient
Speaker 1: with yourself and with the process, and eventually you're gonna notice, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: this is getting easier and easier. I've been praying my
Speaker 1: whole life. I used to write down my prayer so
Speaker 1: I didn't forget on a big piece of paper huge
Speaker 1: I would write, I want to pray for my mom,
Speaker 1: for my grandma, for my siblings, for this, for that,
Speaker 1: like and it would just get longer and longer and
Speaker 1: longer because there was like a list of things that
Speaker 1: I wanted to pray about and I didn't want to forget.
Speaker 1: So I've been praying my entire life. That's something that
Speaker 1: has been a part of my family for a long time.
Speaker 1: Like you know, we went from Catholic to Christian, and
Speaker 1: then I went from Christian to just spirituality. And I
Speaker 1: go to churches and it's like, I'm very like, I
Speaker 1: respect all religions. I love Catholic Church for some reason.
Speaker 1: I love Buddhism, I love Christianity. Like I've told you
Speaker 1: guys this so many times. I'm not a religious person.
Speaker 1: Oh I guess I am. My religion is called love.
Speaker 1: But anyways, before I used to pray in a different way.
Speaker 1: Now I've learned to pray. Like I just told you guys,
Speaker 1: I just talked to God. He's my homie, he's my friend.
Speaker 1: Like I've been meditating, though consistently for almost three years.
Speaker 1: I think it started. I was going through really rough
Speaker 1: patch in twenty nineteen right after I got married and
Speaker 1: I started looking into meditation and it helped me so much,
Speaker 1: especially during the pandemic when we were all in quarantine
Speaker 1: and I started experiencing anxiety and like kind of like
Speaker 1: worried about the future, and it was just causing me
Speaker 1: a lot of discomfort in my chest and in my mind.
Speaker 1: And I started just getting into it a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: And thank goodness for quarantine because it gave me the
Speaker 1: time to really like dive into it and look into it.
Speaker 1: And you know, everything happens for a reason, And since then,
Speaker 1: it's just been amazing. If I don't meditate on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, like, I feel the difference. And mind you,
Speaker 1: there are times when I won't meditate for four days
Speaker 1: in a row because I don't wake up on time,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, whatever the case may be, I'm not
Speaker 1: perfect either of you guys. But I can feel the
Speaker 1: difference when I don't. Like it's become such an essential
Speaker 1: part and important part of my life that when I
Speaker 1: don't do it, lociento. I meditate usually in the morning,
Speaker 1: and I pray morning and night, and at night is
Speaker 1: when I like to get on my knees and say
Speaker 1: thank you God, and it's short, and so thank you
Speaker 1: for this day. Help me have a good night's rest,
Speaker 1: help me wake up good tomorrow, take care of my
Speaker 1: siblings or children. Like you know, it's a little shorter
Speaker 1: at night, and sometimes if I need it, I'll meditate
Speaker 1: at night. It just all depends. But it has definitely
Speaker 1: become something that I can't live without. I don't want
Speaker 1: to live without. And there are a lot of benefits
Speaker 1: to prayer and meditation, but one of the things that
Speaker 1: I've absolutely loved and I'm so grateful for, especially meditation,
Speaker 1: is that when I've been in stressful situations or in
Speaker 1: drama that is happening around me, or even people talking
Speaker 1: crap and trying to like pick at me. Before I meditated,
Speaker 1: I started meditating, I felt like it was easier for
Speaker 1: me to react. I was more impulsive. I'd go and
Speaker 1: start like tweeting and sending all these things on Twitter
Speaker 1: and saying all this stuff, and it's like they accomplished
Speaker 1: what they wanted was to get my attention in a
Speaker 1: negative way. And meditation has helped me stay in my
Speaker 1: essence and remind me of who I am, of my
Speaker 1: true essence, which is peace. I don't want to have issues.
Speaker 1: I don't want drama. And even when like it's helped
Speaker 1: me in my relationship, even with friendships, things that like
Speaker 1: sometimes you know that we're not always gonna agree, and
Speaker 1: it's helped me just see the other person for who
Speaker 1: they are and just take deep breaths because meditation you
Speaker 1: breathe deep breath in, deep breath out. And when you
Speaker 1: do that, even if you do that, like in your stress,
Speaker 1: just breathing profoundly and deeply and holding and releasing, it
Speaker 1: helps so much, like you're just less stress. I think
Speaker 1: it's helped me also lose weight. It's just it's helped
Speaker 1: me so much, Like I just me madrel Mondo. Like
Speaker 1: there are times when I'm like, oh whatever, everything can
Speaker 1: literally be just like fucking crumbling down around me. And like,
Speaker 1: but I'm so sound inside my heart because I meditated
Speaker 1: that morning and I'm connected that Melee. I'm like, whatever
Speaker 1: tomorrow is gonna be better. It's gonna be fine. This
Speaker 1: drama that's happening right now, in a week, no one's
Speaker 1: gonna remember if it's stay focused, Jenna, stay focused. And
Speaker 1: that's my favorite part. Honestly, that's the biggest and most
Speaker 1: beautiful gift that meditaition and prayer has given me. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you really enjoyed this episode. It's one that's
Speaker 1: very close to my heart and hopefully it helps you
Speaker 1: guys as much as it's helped me. Thank you for
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